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Patrick Murphy: What about performance-related pay for MLAs? (opens the original)
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FAR be it from this column to disagree with the torrents of wisdom which flow from the political parties at Stormont. However, it is hard to take seriously their professed shock and horror at their latest proposed salary increase. âGrotesque,â said Sinn Féin. We had âno inputâ, pleaded the DUP. âOut of touch with where the public are,â shouted Alliance. I think Jon Burrows of the UUP also said something, but he says so much I canât remember what it was. The recommendation to incre
Patrick Murphy: Trump is just a symptom of Americaâs addiction to war (opens the original)
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AS Donald Trump arrives in Ireland this weekend, it might be a good time to ask him why America is permanently engaged in war. In every single year since the end of World War II, US military forces have been in active combat â always in someone elseâs country. Although Trump himself was elected on a promise of peace, he could not resist the temptation recently to âbomb the hell out of Iranâ, in a war which he started, but for which he has yet to offer a consistent explanation. It is also
Patrick Murphy: An open letter to the British Prime Minister (opens the original)
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How dare you come over here and tell us the truth? You arrived last week and said that a border poll was not on the table. Everyone here knows a poll is not coming any time soon, but nationalists predict its arrival (always a few years in the future) to win votes and unionists use the same timeframe as a threat to their electorate. The British sold the IRA a pup in the Good Friday Agreement by offering a border poll when London thinks it is âlikelyâ to achieve a nationalist majority. For 28
Michael Cusack would not have got past the Croke Park barricades (opens the original)
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If Michael Cusack were alive today, he would probably not be allowed into Croke Park. Although he was the first to come up with the idea of a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), he later described its executive as âa miserable, mischievous and traitorous gangâ. He wrote in his newspaper, Celtic Times, in 1887 that they were a âjunta of knaves and foolsâ and an âincapable set of idiotsâ. For using language like that today the GAAâs leadership would presumably ban him from entering Cr
Patrick Murphy: Lough Neagh is a victim of political pollution (opens the original)
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Bad news for the two swans which became trapped in algae on Lough Neagh this week. The algae will be there for as long as Stormont exists, because it does not have the political will to tackle it. That is the sad conclusion we must draw from examining the Executiveâs behaviour towards the loughâs desecration. The solution to Lough Neaghâs problem lies in science. However, Stormont doesnât do physical science (it tried it once, but its Climate Change Act is preventing it from upgrading th
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